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People may have noticed that there is a lack of new information on this website recently. It's not that I have grown tired of this or have nothing new to say. A year and a half ago I suddenly lost m ...

This forum was started as a place to consolidate information/pictures about German localities from which the early settlers of Concordia came. Almost all of them came from the lowlands of north Germ ...

The excitement and frenzy of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 quickly disappeared after that day. However, for the record, it should be noted that the area around Concordia was under the direct ...

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A large collection of glass plate negatives from the Algert T. Peterson and Leonard D. Rehkop photographic studios in Higginsville and Concordia, MO had been preserved and were donated to the State Hi ...

While researching the family of Rudolph Peters, a teacher at Davis School in the 1890s, I ran across an unusual convergence of the families of three teachers who taught at St. Paul's Elementary School ...

A booklet published in 1965 on the 125th anniversary of St. Paul's Church was scanned and uploaded to this website. Much of the history in this booklet can also be found in the sesquicentennial book ...

Early motorist in the 1910s had to contend with notoriously muddy roads. Several pictures below illustrate road conditions in the rainy seasons. Missouri had a particularly bad reputation. People w ...

For the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I, there have been numerous articles in newspapers, books, and on TV about the “Great War” (to end all wars). Various activities we ...

As an expression of patriotism during WWI, St. Paul's College formed a Cadet Corps with compulsory military training. (An equivalent of ROTC.) An account of this activity was described by Rev. F. A. ...

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading [url=http://www.concordia-memories.org/files/SPCCentennial.pdf]"Praise for the Past…Faith for the Future, A centennial history of St. Paul’s College in Concordia ...

Have you seen an old building in the Sanborn maps and are wondering what is located there now? The Street View mode in Google maps is a convenient way to check this. The user interface for Street Vi ...

The early photo of Concordia shown below has always been puzzling to me. Has anyone tried to identify the contents of that photo? It appeared in a Concordian article which provided some information ...

As noted by Robert Frizzell, author of Independent Immigrants, it is ironic that in a community whose population through the years was so dominantly Lutheran, the only person "of national recogni ...

Was Kathryn Kuhlman Methodist or Baptist?

There is a website at [url=http://yourlifeoffreedom.blogspot.com/p/mummy-kathryn-kuhlman-memorial-page.html]MUMMY KATHRYN KUHLMAN MEMORIAL PAGE which inclu ...